Handwritten entry for the date, covering parts of three pages of this small volume representing the Civil War diary of Rachel Carter Craighead. Craighead relates threatened retaliation by Federal authorities in Nashville for participation in a...

Handwritten entry from Rachel Carter Craighead's Civil War diary. Craighead notes confiscated properties in Nashville currently occupied by Federal military officials. She also relates the critical condition of her younger brother John, a Sergeant...

Handwritten entry from Rachel Carter Craighead's Civil War diary. These entries convey the dying agonies suffered by John Carter, Craighead's younger brother who was a Sergeant Major with the 1st Tennessee wounded at the Battle of Perryville on...

Handwritten entry from Rachel Carter Craighead's Civil War diary. These entries convey the dying agonies suffered by John Carter, Craighead's younger brother who was a Sergeant Major with the 1st Tennessee wounded at the Battle of Perryville on...

Handwritten entry covering one page. Craighead mentions the disastrous collapse this day of the stairs at the Overton Hotel (later Maxwell House Hotel), which housed Confederate prisoners. John Overton, Jr.'s construction of the luxury hotel was...

Correspondence from Mary Guthrie Latta to her husband, Samuel R. Latta. This four-page letter provides information about the homelife of Mary Guthrie Latta since her husband's departure. She states that the family "is getting along as well and...

Richmond fell on the 4th. General Lee surrendered on the 9th. Abraham Lincoln was shot on the 14th. Booth was the murdereer. These great events made April of 1865 the greatest of the war. At the Episcopal Church on Easter Mr. Ringgold & a lady...

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family were all well, but delicacy forbade my asking any
pointed questions. I missed a treat by going to town yesterday. Lizzie Dulany having come to see me in
my absence. You can better imagine my chagrin and disappointment than I...